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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8263)	6/3/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Respond to of 74651

Batman AND Robin?: Monopoly to Become Duopoly? Stay Tuned ... Potentially good news for Microsoft in its struggle with the Department of Justice. Surely there would be very positive Anti-Trust implications if Microsoft were to be joined by another firm offering an alternative OS on the Intel platform. There seem to be vague stirrings on the distant horizon. What are the implications, if any? HR PS: Here is an article from MacOS Rumors OSX/Intel update (Wednesday, June 3rd, 12:05 PM EDT) Readers have kindly sent in several translations of an audio-only QuickTime recording of a recent Japanese printing conference where it is now confirmed that an Apple Japan representative has stated, according to the most accurate translation: "Currently, you can only use [the Mac OS] on PowerPC-based machines, but in the future it is planned that it will also be useable on Pentium-based machines." ...this during a segment of the speech entirely regarding Mac OS X. Other prominent personalities in the Mac industry had interesting insights into the feasibility of OS X for Intel, which nearly every developer who wrote in said may be far less difficult than previous reports have suggested -- primarily due to the fact that Carbon is designed from the ground up to reduce dependencies on processors and other hardware, in order to properly interact with the Rhapsody core technologies it will be sitting on top of. In fact several readers quoted newsgroup posts from such well-respected individuals as the founder of Metrowerks, who repeatedly mention that Carbon is a highly portable sub-set of the Mac OS APIs, and is spectacularly well-suited to being moved to Intel's two major architectures, best known as IA-32 (x86/Pentium) and IA-64 ("Merced"). Apple sources were able to say only that there is at least one Intel-related "skunk works" project to which they are not privy, and there are no currently "official" Intel ports of OS X or its components in progress on a team-wide scale" Comment: Of course, one might expect perfidious Apple Computer to hold back on any immanent public pronouncement on this subject until after Microsoft has made its best possible deal with regulators. HR